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SARANAC LAKE The state Department of Environmental Conservation will hold virtual public hearings on the Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling Act, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022. Yet it is unclear how many businesses and institutions in the Tri-Lakes region may be affected. Organic material is the largest component of the municipal solid waste stream in the United States, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology’s New York State Pollution Prevention Institute. About 40% of all food produced for U.S. consumption, about 63 million tons, ends up in the waste stream, occupying a lot of space and generating a lot of methane gas into the atmosphere.
Company news: Kate Walker McArdle hired by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry announced
Kate Walker McArdle will serve as the project director for the New York State Center for Sustainable Materials Management. She has 15 years of experience working in environmental educator and program management roles. She has worked for and with government agencies, universities and nonprofit organizations and earned a bachelor of arts degree in environmental studies from
St. Lawrence University.
A native of East Rochester, she managed a statewide outreach and education program for the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at the